Dietary Aide

Regency Care of Silver Spring; Silver Spring (MD); On-site; USD 27,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care facility is seeking an energetic Dietary Aide to provide excellent service to residents. The position involves preparing meals, maintaining food service areas, and ensuring dietary orders are followed, requiring effective communication and empathy towards the elderly.

Qualifications

• Ability to understand and follow instructions in English.
• Ability to communicate effectively and perform simple arithmetic.
• Requires empathy for the elderly.

Responsibilities

• Prepares therapeutic desserts and salads.
• Serves meals and maintains sanitation and stock levels.
• Transports food and non-food items, clears tables.

Skills

Communication

Customer Service

Empathy

Job description

We are looking for an energetic Dietary Aide to join our growing team! The right candidate will have the ability to communicate effectively and be able to provide excellent customer service to our residents.

BENEFITS

Responsibilities

• Prepares therapeutic desserts and salads as required
• Serves meals in the health center pantries
• Sets up tables in the health center dining room(s) and breaks them down after the meals
• Transports hot and cold foods to and from the health center pantries
• Transports all required non-food items to and from the health center pantries
• Washes silver, glass, china in dish machines in pantries as per regulation
• Provides health center snacks and supplements per diet orders
• Maintains stock and sanitation levels in coffee and juice machines in dining rooms
• Sets tables and maintains work stations in proper order
• Takes order, provides service and requested items both graciously and courteously
• Clears dishes from tables during and after meal service
• Ensures that orders match Physician's diet orders

Qualifications

• Ability to understand and follow instructions in English, communicate effectively, perform simple arithmetic, and understand measurements and conversions
• Previous experience in nursing home food service preferred, but not required
• Ability to plan, organize and set up trays and plates in accordance with diet orders and interpret specifications and standards
• Ability to work in close cooperation with residents, guests, visitors, families, supervisor and peers. Requires empathy for the eldery

We are an equal opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination / harassment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.